Word: emirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medieval Arabian physicians foreshadowed Boston's famed Dr. Stanley Cobb in believing that much of arthritis is psychological. In the 9th Century, the great physician Rhazes attended an emir who was so badly crippled that he could not walk. First Rhazes ordered the emir's best horse to be saddled and brought into the court yard. Rhazes gave the emir hot showers and a stiff drink. Then, brandishing a knife, he cursed his patient, threatened to kill him. Furious, the crippled man sprang to his feet. With his patient hot on his trail, the doctor leaped...